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Tony Gwynn Jr., his sister Anisha Gwynn-Jones and their attorney David S. Casey, Jr. held a press conference Tuesday to discuss the family's lawsuit against the tobacco industry whom they hold accountable for the baseball great's death.

“Our dad was an elite athlete who didn’t drink or smoke because he cared about his health and performance,” Tony Gwynn Jr. said. “If he had known how addictive and harmful to his health dip was, he would not have started using it in college, become addic

What matters in the end is we must continue to influence our children that smoking, dipping and chewing tobacco in any way, shape or form, is bad for you. If they choose to rebel and use it by their own volition, then so be it.

"Throughout his career, our dad was proud of his work helping kids and being a positive role model to his fans," she said. "But the whole time, the tobacco companies were using his addiction to turn him into their ultimate walking billboard. He never kne

Family members of Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn on Monday filed a wrongful death suit in California court, alleging that a tobacco company lured him into an addiction to smokeless tobacco that made him an unwitting promoter of the products and eventua

The tobacco companies "continued to deluge Tony during his college years with countless free samples of 'dip' tobacco products they purposely adulterated to make more addictive. All the while, they did not mention either the highly addictive nature of the

The suit was filed in San Diego Superior Court on behalf of his widow, Alicia Gwynn, who was married to the star for 33 years, and his two adult children Anisha Gwynn-Jones and Tony Gwynn Jr., who also played professional baseball. It targets Altria Gro

Not accepting the cigar, Clinton asked, “You know the joke about that?” The pool reporter, BuzzFeed's Ruby Cramer, said she only heard the word "dynamite," but that Clinton eventually picked up one of the man's cigars. “You smoke cigars. Don’t bullshit m